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Credits: This is a guest post by Rohit Boggarapu, a software engineer at Adobe.

Data visualization is something that comes up at least once in the work life of a frontend developer. If you are a JavaScript developer and havenít made any interactive charts yet, then there is a good chance that you will do so in near future. And to prepare you for that moment, I decided to write this detailed tutorial.

In this tutorial I will not only cover the process of making a simple
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Last month I showed you how to Get XML Data into a Web Page - this month we use that knowledge to create a paginated web page of featured story excerpts, from an RSS feed. The pagination script is a freebie that you can plug in to your own projects too! You certainly get lots for your money with this blog!

XML stands for EXtensible Markup Language. It is a language designed to accurately describe and structure data, keeping it separate from any styling or visual formatting. Its aim is to separate presentation, structure, and meaning from the actual content - and it does a pretty good job of it.

Storing the data in this fuss-free way is great and many tools, software and websites output data/feeds in the XML format because it is reliable, format-free, robust, easily transferred and easily
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Play animated GIFs on-demand with this GIF player. No JavaScript dependencies. Initial loading of a GIF is delayed until the user starts playback manually.

For a recent project, I needed to display a number of animated GIFs on a web page to illustrate before and after scenarios. Now, the problem with GIFs is that they are usually displayed on a web page using the <img> element, which means that they download immediately when the page loads. Some of my animated GIFs were several
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This is pretty obvious, I suppose. I decided to post it anyway.
The standard way of getting PHP output into a HTML file (that you don't want to give the PHP extension) is to configure the server to interpret HTML files as PHP. But your web host may not support the htaccess file(s) needed for this. No worries, there's a client side way of getting PHP output into HTML. Just put the following lines where you want the output to display in your HTML file (and don't forget to reference the jQuery
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